The Linux Standards Base requires that 3rd party software be installed under /opt/<makers identifier>/. This then needs some way of conveniently making the executables available on the system's search path and making necessary man pages accessible and also possibly libararies and header files. This is the job of autolink and it may be invoked as simply as: #> autolink /opt/<maker>/ /usr/local/ The effect will be that all files in directories under /opt/<maker> will be symlinked back from /usr/local/ and will therefore be automatically included in the bin and man search paths. Because the software provider may also install many header and library files which are only needed by folk who intend to further develop the installed software it is optionally possible to exclude selected sub- directories from being linked. It is easy to remove this installed software by simply: #> rm -rf /opt/<maker> Having done this step you will then be left with possibly a large number of dangling symlinks (broken symlinks) in /usr/local/. In that case they may be removed by: #> undangle /usr/local The program undangle is provided with together with autolink.